Human Physiology: Start Here

Human Physiology Research at Gonzaga

Doing research in Human Physiology at Gonzaga? This guide will help, so your research project will the best it can be. Start with the Quick Links box to the left or choose one of the tabs at the top of the page to search for information on books, articles, web materials and more. Any questions? Contact me, my information is in the box to the right.

Human Physiology Quick Links

MEDLINE® contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world.

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 19 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). The great majority of journals are selected for MEDLINE based on the recommendation of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC), an NIH-chartered advisory committee of external experts analogous to the committees that review NIH grant applications. Some additional journals and newsletters are selected based on NLM-initiated reviews, e.g., history of medicine, health services research, AIDS, toxicology and environmental health, molecular biology, and complementary medicine, that are special priorities for NLM or other NIH components. These reviews generally also involve consultation with an array of NIH and outside experts or, in some cases, external organizations with which NLM has special collaborative arrangements. MEDLINE is the primary component of PubMed, part of the Entrez series of databases provided by the NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

PubMed is the freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). PubMed primarily includes MEDLINE citations, but also contains: In-process citations which provide a record for an article before it is indexed with MeSH and added to MEDLINE or converted to out-of-scope status.Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing (when supplied electronically by the publisher). Some OLDMEDLINE citations that have not yet been updated with current vocabulary and converted to MEDLINE status. Citations to articles that are out-of-scope (e.g., covering plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and general chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed with MeSH for MEDLINE. Some life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral® and may not yet have been recommended for inclusion in MEDLINE although they have undergone a review by NLM, and some physics journals that were part of a prototype PubMed in the early to mid-1990's.Citations to author manuscripts of articles published by NIH-funded researchers.

a full text subset of the PubMed database. Access to PubMed Central is free and unrestricted.

Like MEDLINE, PubMed Central is a collection within PubMed. Access to PubMed Central is free and open to the public, and contains full text access to biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed Central houses over 500,000 full text articles, most of which have a corresponding citation in PubMed.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscusOf those, 393 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.

Visible Body is a 3D human anatomy resource. This link takes you to the Ovid database portal where you'll find Visible Body on the menu bar.

Watch the MeSH Video (11 min)

Fortunately for researchers in the biological and medical sciences, a key database, MEDLINE, has a robust controlled vocabulary called MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). To understand how the MeSH vocabulary is constructed, watch the video from the National Library of Medicine.